rs may have the
opportunity of hiring them. All the rest have been taken from the ship
at the expense of the employers. We believe that the only restrictions
are that the men shall not be landed in Sydney, and that they shall not
be employed in the county of Cumberland."

The policy of Earl Grey was, for the time being, carried out.

CEPHALONIA.

The disturbances which prevailed in 1848 were continued in 1849,
and revived again and again, fitfully, when they seemed to have been
suppressed. An attempt was made to assassinate the governor of the
island, and a soldier was shot by his side, and several others near him
were wounded. Murder and incendiarism prevailed everywhere, and open
revolt where there was any chance of even temporary success. The
same cause which existed in 1848--the desire for annexation to
Greece--produced these proceedings; but certain banditti chiefs took
advantage of the feeling, in order to promote their own predatory
designs. The musket and the gallows suppressed these outrages. The
public trials of the chief offenders betrayed a state of dishonesty,
treachery, treason, and bloodthirstiness among the population generally,
disgraceful to the Greek race.

The colonial history of the British empire during this year involved no
other incidents that were remarkable--in general it was discontented and
disturbed; but the energy of the military and civil officers, and the
fidelity and valour of the troops, subjugated all opposition, or held
adverse interests at bay, and kept down disaffection, until future
opportunities allowed of more signal success. India was the scene of
more striking events, which had their full share of peril and glory.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION UNDER SIR J. ROSS.

Perhaps no subject engaged the mind of the British people more
sympathetically and powerfully than the fate of the brave men who
formed the great Arctic expedition. Sir John Franklin was popular, and
eminently deserved to be so; and the public desired that every effort
should be made, and every risk incurred, for his deliverance--or, at all
events, a satisfactory solution of the doubts which prevailed concerning
his existence. For this purpose an expedition was sent out under Sir
James Ross, with specific instructions to prosecute the search in a
certain direction, which would not interfere with efforts elsewhere, so
as to determine, at all events in one great field of exploration, if he
yet survived. Sir J